Towel-rack.



E. C. STIEFEL. TOWEL RACK.

APPLICATION FILED IUNE 27. I9I4.

l l 4: 1,664., Patented June 1, 1915.

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FRANK CARL STIEFEL, OF PI-IILAIDEIPI-IIA,` PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE CURTIS 'PUBLISHING COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF IEENNSYLVANIA.

T0 all whom it may concern phiafand State of Pennsylvania, have in-Y vented certain V=new and useful Improvements in Towel-Racks, of which the following is a specification. p Individual towels are frequently provided and in many places are required and it is less expensive and more desirable to provide textile towels andwash them than itis to provide paper or like towels. However, in providing textile towels it is desirable to have them free for unlimited use, yet incapable of being diverted from their intended use or carried away and mislaid or lost.

Theprincipal object of the present invention is to provide a comparatively simple, inexpensive and'reliable towel rack or fixture by means of which textile towelscan be used in the manner above indicated, but without fear of their being lost or taken away or diverted from their intended use.

The invention will be claimed at the end hereof, but will be first described in connection with the embodiment of it illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-v Figure 1, is a perspective view illustrating atowel rack or holder embodying features of the invention. Fig. 2, is an enlarged view ofthe lower portion of the device. Fig. 3, is an enlarged view, principallyin section, of a portion of the upper part of the device, and Fig. 4, is a front view, partly in section, illustrating a detail.

In the drawings 1 and 2 are a pair of straight rigid pins, of which one, 2, is tubular. These pins are shown as projecting from a panel or the like 3, that may be appropriately secured to the Wall above a wash basin 5. A

6, is a lock mounted on the panel 3 and secured to the tubular pin 2. This lock may be of the spring variety and is provided with the usual key-hole 7 and Yother littings of a lock. The bolt 8 of this lock is normally projected by the spring 9 through a suitable opening in the hollow pin 2 into its interior. L, l

10, is a button headed screw or the like,

varranged below the tubular pin 2 with its head projecting. For example, it can be in- Specication of Letters Patent.

TOWEL-RACK.

i Patented June 1, 1915.

Application led .Tune 27, 1914. VSerial No. 847,609.

serted into the wall 12 in such a way that it is xed and immovable,'while its head is at some distance from the wall.

13, is a rod provided at one end with a plate 4L, Fig. 2, having an opening or buttonhole or key-holeV slot 15. The opening or key-hole slot 15 is in `part appropriate for the passage of the head of the pin 10 and in part` appropriate for the reception of the shank of the pin 10. This button-hole or Vkey-hole slot in connection with the pin constitutes a detachable connection or support for the lower end of the rod. The other end of the rod 13 is provided with a head 16, formed with a neck or notch 17. The'upper end of the rod 13 is angularly bent for insertion into the socket 2 and the head'16 is adapted to act upon the beveled end of the bolt 8 and so push it back in order that it may enter the neck or notch 17 vand so hold the rod in the socket. A key 18 is provided for retracting the bolt 8 and freeing the rod 13. The lower end of the rod 13 is offset as at 19 so as to guide the soiled towels a into the basket b and at its lower end it is provided with the buttonhole or key-hole slot 15, as has been stated.

In use a supply of towels each having an appropriatel opening, gromet or loop, is placed upon the pins 1 and 2 by passing the llatter through the openings, gromets or loops. The feather 2O on the pin 1, operates to prevent the towels from improperly slipping over the pin 1 or from slipping over it more than one at a time. Of course, when the towels are applied to the pins the upper .end of the rod 13 is withdrawn from the tubular pin 2, which is easily accomplished as to retract the bolt 8. After the supply of towels is in place, the rod 13 is applied by securing one of its ends by the button and button-hole Vconnection 10 and 15 and the other of its ends by the bolt 8. Thereafter any one desiring to do so can use the towels, oneat a time and as many as desirable, by simply freeing them from the pin 1 and letting them slide down the rod 13. The latter, however, prevents the towels from being taken away or improperly used. After use, the towels are permitted to slide along the rod 13, which guides them into the basket or receptacle I). The towels can Y the rod 3, when it is in convenient position Vbe` removed for Washing by freeing the rod 13 inthe manner described, and: stripping.

them from it.

The provisionV of two pins sind the rodV forming a 'continuation'of one of them prepin 1 and it isv easy to get one towel and" tothen` letl it slideoil" the pin 2 andalong for use.

What I' claim is: i l.v A device of the :class described comprising the combination of a. pair of straight:

rigid vimmovable pins in parallel relation andof whichone is tubular, a spring lock of Vwhich-fthe' bolt is projectible into and retractible. from the `tubular pin, a; button .be-r' low the tubularpin, and zt rod' provided at one :end with` af platefhavinga key-hole slot Copie: o! tlsfpatentmay;beobtaiuedlorv vef cents each", by addressinjgxtng Commissioncrrotleiengtsl f l for thebutton and at lthe other end With a head and a', notchodapted to coperztte with the spring bolt, substantially as described;A v Y 2; Ay device ofthe eltssspecifi'edcompris--y ing the combinationV of:v a rodY having' a,v

straight pin portion, terminalE connections for immovably holding the rod, and a straight immovable pin parallel Vwith said pin portion', whereby a group of cleantowels` v Y Washington, D41.

hereunto Y :FRANKQCARL STIEFEI Y Y i 

